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Elevator
operation
systems
CYBERTHEFT
BY THE NUMBERS
Average cost of a data
breach, according to
a poll conducted by the
Ponemon Institute
$600 billion
Estimated annual cost of cybercrime on the global economy,
up from $445 billion in 2015
$7.5 billion
Estimated cost of
ransomware attacks in
the United States
in 2019, according to
cybersecurity
company Emsisoft
pathways, testing, and maintenance.
The document also recently included
a new reference section in its annex
called Guidelines for Cybersecurity.
The ongoing FPRF project on
cybersecurity will help stakeholders
" better understand vulnerabilities,
the severity of consequences, and the
awareness issues that exist within the
fire protection community ... and will
(further) inform the standards development process, " Jim Pauley, NFPA's
CEO and president, said in a recent
virtual speech.
Alkemper says that additional installation and maintenance standards with
cybersecurity at the forefront could
help both workers and manufacturers.
" You can have a great product, but if
you don't set this up properly, if you
don't manage your access rights properly, if you don't control this and that,
Every 14
seconds
Frequency with which an
organization fell victim to
a ransomware attack in
2019, according to Cyber
Security Ventures
308
days
Average time it takes
for an institution to
learn that a cybersecurity
breach has occurred,
according to the
Ponemon Institute poll
many of the building's security features
will not work, " he said. " I don't know
exactly what that standard would look
like, but will there be one? I would
think so. "
Meanwhile, promising new tools
and technology are also starting to
emerge. They include artificial intelligence and machine learning programs
that might one day be able to automatically detect anomalous behavior
on a network by performing analysis
on millions of data points in a matter
of milliseconds, then alert system
administrators. Manufacturers of
smart devices are also coming out with
new and better security updates and
more hardened products, a trend that
experts say will continue to advance
as consumers become savvier about
cyberthreats and begin demanding
better protection.
Ultimately, it will be up to individual
organizations to adopt protocols, train
their employees, and install a robust
process to protect themselves. While
it may not be possible to completely
stop a motivated attacker with time
and limitless resources, Robinson and
others say, you can at least offer enough
resistance to deter them. " Those layers
of defense make a huge difference
in the level of effort and the level of
sophistication required to get into your
system, " Robinson said. " At the end of
the day, if it costs me a lot of time and
energy, and I only get 10 minutes in a
network, that's a high level of cost and
entry for most attackers. Unless you're
a very high-value target, they are probably going to move past you and on to
the next target. "
JESSE ROMAN is associate editor at NFPA Journal.
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